EU Council. Informal meeting of Defence ministers (until 01/09 – Wicklow – Ireland). Exchange of views and preparation for future decision-making, at formal Councils, on the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy.
EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Nicolaïdis Group. - Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/n5u
Tuesday 1 September
EU Council. Informal meeting of Foreign Affairs and Defence ministers in ‘Gymnich’ format (and 02/09 – Wicklow – Ireland). *Defence: - Working session 1: EU support for Ukraine. – Working session 2: Space in security and defence.
EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Cultural Affairs Committee. – Antici Group. – Financial Services Attachés. - Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/n5v
European Parliament. Committee activities (Brussels): - AFET: Presentation of a study on modernising EU Arctic policy (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n5f ). – AFET-INTA: draft recommendation on the agreement with the United Kingdom on Gibraltar (rapp. T. Reuten and N. Carberry) (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n5f ). – ITRE: exchange of views on the Council Presidency programme with Irish ministers responsible for telecommunications and cybersecurity (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n5h ). – REGI: presentation of the Court of Auditors report on traceability and transparency of Recovery and Resilience Facility funds; public hearing on urban policies in the post-2027 MFF under the ‘New European Bauhaus’ (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n5i ). – FEMM: ‘Evaluating the Implementation and Impact of GAP III as a Foundation for Designing GAP IV’ (Post-2027) (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n5j ). – ENVI: exchange of views with Commissioner Hadja Lahbib (Equality, Preparedness and Crisis Management) on the EU’s response to the summer wildfires; exchange of views with the Irish Presidency (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n5k ). – PECH: debate with the Commission on the implementation of the regulation establishing a common market organisation in the fisheries and aquaculture products sector – origin labelling, traceability and fair competition (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n62 ). – DEVE-AFET: debate with Greenland’s Foreign Minister (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n6f ).
Court of Justice of the EU (Luxembourg). #Judgments:
Wednesday 2 September
EU Council. Informal meeting of Foreign Affairs and Defence ministers in ‘Gymnich’ format (Wicklow – Ireland). *Foreign Affairs: - Support for Ukraine. – Situation in the Middle East. – Conflict in Iran and situation in the Gulf. – Situation in the Gaza Strip and in Lebanon. – Impact of the EU’s external action in a changing international environment and in international fora.
EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Coreper II. - European Union Military Committee (EUMC). - Education Committee. - Budget Committee. – Financial Services Attachés. - Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/n5w
European Parliament. Committee activities (Brussels): - ITRE-IMCO-INTA: Public hearing on the Industrial Accelerator Act (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n5h ). – INTA: exchange of views with the OECD Deputy Secretary-General, on the basis of the MAGIC 2026 database on industrial subsidies (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n63 ). – ENVI-SANT: presentation of the European added value assessment report on cross-border healthcare; presentation of a study on the health effects of fine particles; exchanges of views on paediatric oncology and cutting-edge technology for biomedical innovation (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n5k ). – ENVI-AGRI: Exchanges of views with the Commission; public hearing on simplifying EU rules on food and food safety (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n5k ). – SEDE: state of play of CSDP missions and operations in Moldova and establishment of the mission in Armenia (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n60 ). – BUDG-ECON: exchange of views with the Director-General of DG GROW (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n65 ). – ECON: exchange of views with Anthony Whelan, Director-General of DG COMP (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n65 ). – TRAN: exchange of views with the Commission on the ‘passengers’ package (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n66 ). – DROI: Annual exchange of views with the Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN) on the priorities of the Union’s external action in the field of human rights (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n68 ). – DEVE-DROI: Exchange of views on sustainable growth and poverty eradication: implications for development and human rights (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n68 ). – EMPL: votes (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n6c ) – AFCO: consideration of amendments to the report on the institutional aspects of AI in the context of European integration (rapp. E. E. Kefalogiannis) (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n6e ).
General Court (Luxembourg). #Judgments: - T-357/24 (Opera Norway/Commission – browser publisher Opera is challenging before the General Court the Commission decision not to designate Microsoft’s Edgeweb browser as a gatekeeper core platform service). - T-120/24 (Global Legal Action Network and CAN-Europe vs Commission - Global Legal Action Network and Climate Action Network Europe are challenging the Commission’s rejection of their request to review its decision setting the annual greenhouse gas emission allocations assigned to the Member States for the 2023-2030 period).
Thursday 3 September
EU Council. Informal meeting of ministers responsible for General Affairs (and 04/09 – Dublin). - 2028-2034 Multiannual Financial Framework: discussion by ministers and the Commissioner for Budget with the European Parliament’s co-rapporteurs and the Chair of the Council Budget Committee on the EU’s next Multiannual Financial Framework.
EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Political and Security Committee. - Trade Policy Committee (Deputy Members). – Mertens group. - Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/n5x
European Parliament. Committee activities (Brussels): – SEDE: Presentation of the study by the EPRS “Promoting the integration of SMEs into the EDTIB” (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n60 ). – INTA: presentation by the Commission of the report on the Generalised Scheme of Preferences for the 2023-2025 period (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n63 ). – AGRI: exchanges of views with the Commission and with the EESC (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n67 ). – DROI: Public hearing on the rights and persecution of religious minorities worldwide; exchange of views on the return of refugees and asylum seekers to Afghanistan following the Commission’s meetings with Taliban representatives and in the light of the human rights situation in the country (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n68 ). - BUDG: consideration of the report and working document on the EU general budget for 2027 (rapp. N. Ušakovs and M. Hadjipantela) (agenda: https://aeur.eu/f/n6a ).
European Court of Auditors (Luxembourg). Publication of a review on the EU defence policy.
Court of Justice of the EU (Luxembourg). #Judgments: - C-798/24 ([Jautiva] - the Court is asked about the compatibility with the European company law directive and with the General Data Protection Regulation of Latvian legislation requiring publication of information concerning shareholders in public limited companies). - C-147/25 (Inter Rao Lietuva – the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania asks the Court of Justice whether national authorities may apply sanctions, including a freezing of funds, to a company regarded as linked to persons sanctioned by the EU, but which does not appear on the Union’s lists. More broadly, it asks about the extent of review by the national court and the level of evidence needed to establish the link with a sanctioned person. Lastly, it asks how that review should be exercised where the measure is linked to considerations of national security). #Opinions: - C-661/24 (Académie fiscale e.a. - the Constitutional Court asks the Court about the retention period for certain traffic data as well as the retention and processing of location data in the context of the operation and security of networks, and about the arrangements for any possible exceeding of those periods in the light of Directive 2002/58 on privacy and electronic communications and the fundamental rights to respect for private life and protection of personal data). - C-320/25 ([Lertimene] - an Italian administrative court asks the Court about the compatibility with EU law on sex-based discrimination of national rules prohibiting visible tattoos with the police uniform, whereas in this case the tattoo is visible only for women because of the wearing of the uniform skirt).
Friday 4 September
EU Council. Informal meeting of ministers responsible for General Affairs (Dublin). – Working session 1: discussion between European ministers and those of nine candidate and potential candidate countries on strengthening administrative capacities with a view to those countries meeting the accession criteria. – Working session 2: consideration by ministers and the Commissioner for Enlargement of safeguards that could be included in future accession treaties, ahead of a strategic debate on enlargement scheduled for the next European Council meeting in October. – Working session 3: debate in the presence of the Commissioner responsible for the ‘European Democracy Shield’ (EDS) on ways of protecting participation in democratic life by combating political violence.
EU Council. Preparatory bodies (Brussels): - Coreper I. – Working Party on the United Kingdom. - Other meetings: https://aeur.eu/f/n5y
European Commission. College seminar. - Artificial intelligence: consideration of the long-term impacts of AI. - Autumn agenda: discussions on housing, public procurement and preparation of President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union address.
